dark urge playthrough was extremely dissapointing

[Deviant]

i was expecting you would be killing as bare minimum atleast half of your companions becuz of your urges but you could only kill a single companion of yours whoever you romanced thats it and there was very few urge choices through entire story this was so dissapointing i thought dark urge playthrough would be something unique it wasnt it was just bad

[LucidFlux]

Biggest disappointment was just the ending if you decide to become Bhaal's choosen and take control of the elderbrain is exactly the same as the ending if you decide to take over the Elderbrain on your own with one line of dialogue changed. This just felt lazy and your Butler doesn't even show up to congratulate you or anything.

[Deviant]

Originally posted by GoofyHeartborn:

I stabbed Alfira.
I slit Laezel's throat with a persuasion check.
Cut off gales hands.
Snapped Mintharas throat.
Beheaded Karlach.
Wyll abandoned me.
Killed Jaheera at last light.
Killed Halsin in the goblin camp.
I Killed shadowheart at the Nightsong.

Not to mention, Arabella, the squirrel, the homeless refugees.

Durge can kill a lot if you let him.

i did every urge dialog i could pick all i could do was kill minthara

[Deviant]

Originally posted by Deviant:

Originally posted by GoofyHeartborn:

I stabbed Alfira.
I slit Laezel's throat with a persuasion check.
Cut off gales hands.
Snapped Mintharas throat.
Beheaded Karlach.
Wyll abandoned me.
Killed Jaheera at last light.
Killed Halsin in the goblin camp.
I Killed shadowheart at the Nightsong.

Not to mention, Arabella, the squirrel, the homeless refugees.

Durge can kill a lot if you let him.

i did every urge dialog i could pick all i could do was kill minthara and killing jaheira doesnt count she just became enemy of you and you killed her in combat what i meant by dissapointing urge choices is that you couldnt kill more than 2 companions through dialog choices in this case anyone you romance and karlach if you transform her at the end

[Pepsu]

But the thing is that Dark Urge was not supposed to be a "murder hobo playthrough" you can be evil even as Tav, Astarion etc. Dark Urge is a origin that really wants you to redeem yourself but sure you can embrace it all tough it feels like redemption arc path is way better. This is the best origin for people that played Baldurs Gate 1 and 2 an I wont say why because of spoilers.

[Banelord]

The thing that is most dissapointing to me, but I understand why they did it, is that the dark urge is again that toxic jerk murderhobo evil type, Bhaal, and not a proper systematic evil that we deserve to have as an option if we want to play evil in FR.

[Banelord]

Originally posted by Pepsu:

But the thing is that Dark Urge was not supposed to be a "murder hobo playthrough" you can be evil even as Tav, Astarion etc. Dark Urge is a origin that really wants you to redeem yourself but sure you can embrace it all tough it feels like redemption arc path is way better. This is the best origin for people that played Baldurs Gate 1 and 2 an I wont say why because of spoilers.

Kicking animals for no reason, murdering for no reason is teh very definition of that dumb god, Bhaal.

[Pepsu]

Originally posted by Banelord:

Originally posted by Pepsu:

But the thing is that Dark Urge was not supposed to be a "murder hobo playthrough" you can be evil even as Tav, Astarion etc. Dark Urge is a origin that really wants you to redeem yourself but sure you can embrace it all tough it feels like redemption arc path is way better. This is the best origin for people that played Baldurs Gate 1 and 2 an I wont say why because of spoilers.

Kicking animals for no reason, murdering for no reason is teh very definition of that dumb god, Bhaal.

Well In Baldurs Gate 1&2 you also played as Bhallspawn and you could be completly good there. Its same for Baldurs gate 3 but with the difference that Being a Bhallspawn is now optional which kinda sucks because good Dark urge story is way superior compared to Tav which is a shame because not many people are gonna experience it because they think that Durge is a evil playtrough origin.

[Toaster Maximus]

Still feel bad when my urge got the kid to make a run for it

[Low Roar]

pretty funny seeing ppl make a list of ppl that they killed that had nothing to do with durge.

[Tingly]

If you were expecting each of the playable origins, tav and the dark urge to effectively be different major story branches rather than something that spices up a run a bit with its differences then I guess all I can say is moderate your expectations more in general.

[Toaster Maximus]

I really need to do the game not has urge sometime, just to listen to the narrator do stuff normally

They do he underlining urge stuff so well though

[Toaster Maximus]

The dark urge is more there for flavor and to take out select npcs no one will miss during my dark urge play through normally ends up with five npcs dead in the grove right off even if a couple f those npcs where just beasts

[Deviant]

Originally posted by busty:

pretty funny seeing ppl make a list of ppl that they killed that had nothing to do with durge.

this so much! just becuz i can out of combat kill any of my companion doesnt mean its dark urge specific what i meant is killing companions through urge dialog choices

[cl656]

Originally posted by Isaac_Clark:

The devs created Dark Urge with the intention that people would play into the redemption arch and resist the urge. They wrote a ton of content for this and it's very satisfying. Conversely, the evil Dark Urge storyline is bland and disappointing on purpose to punish people for wanting to play that way. And I think that's incredibly based. You don't need to fantasize about being evil when we live in a world where we're surrounded by so much of it IRL.

You don't need to fantasize about being a hero in a video game, when there are so many people in the real world in need of saving.

[Toaster Maximus]

Dark urge always ends up with a pale elf romance oddly for me